"Question:
Will people be able to decompile the executables I've made with PerlApp?
Answer:
PerlApp does provide some level of code obfuscation. Decompiling executables is not trivial, but it is possible."perlapp | ActiveState Community Site

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Re: Decompile PerlApp
by Jenda Krynicky other posts by this author
Mar 6 2000 10:36AM messages near this date Decompile PerlApp | Generation HTML
> Does anyone know if a freestanding exe compiled with PerlApp
> can be decompiled?
>
> My hard drive died, and I thought I had saved everything--
> but a single module I wrote recently was (I know, I know)
> not copied, backed up, or printed.
>
> --
> Brian Lalonde brianl@....us
Not sure about PerlApp, but the Mercury Systems' perl2exe extracts
the modules into a temporary directory (under C:\temp or
C:\windows\temp) AFAIK. So you might run the script and try to look
up the module, I think you'll find it.
Jenda
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"perl is an interpreted language.
in the process of conversions(perl2exe) there are some
patterns wich emerge ,and those can then be traced back.
if there is an perl2exe, there might be even an exe2perl.
so here's a search on google for exe2perl:
http://www.google.com/search?client=oper…
if this doesn't work try the following query searching for
a perl disassembler
http://www.google.com/search?client=oper…
Source(s):
www.google.com"How do you get the source code of a program? PERL? - Yahoo! Answers

"I assume the exe was built with perlapp or perl2exe. It's not easy, you have to be really good with low-level development tools, but I would start by examining the memory while the program is running. (It has to "decrypt" the source code and then parse it)
Source(s):
P.S. There is no such thing as "PERL". The programming language is "Perl" and the executor is "perl"."How do you get the source code of a program? PERL? - Yahoo! Answers

"On 6/24/06, Timothy Johnson <tjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It depends on which program was used to create the executable. I don't
know about Perl2Exe, but PerlApp encrypts the contents of the
executables to prevent tampering."RE: Any PERL Decompiler / code ?

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